On "Fri, 15 Nov 1996 03:59:00 GMT." Ian Jackson wove together:
[> David Morris has volunteered to do some manual updates - good. I hope
[> everyone won't mind if I take a somewhat anal-retentive attitude to
[> it, as I'm anxious that the new text should be correct.
As it should be. And since I am reflecting questions that have either come up
in discussion or in my own mind we need a type of precision that is clear.
[> So, I'm going to comment on each of his questions:
[> [some snipping]
[> > * clarification of shlibs section
[> > [from a note from Heiko who is working on the dpkg code]
[>
[> Fine. Try not to remove any of my text, if you can, though it might
[> be best moved into a section with the other shlibs stuff perhaps ?
Got it, the stuff Heiko sent me seemed to be additional detail about the
shlibs files and who does what with which ones.
[> [snip]
[> > * does the language defining non-free/contrib need to be clarified?
[>
[> No, please don't change a word of it.
OK, I just know we have had some discussion about it, but as Guy (I think)
said this is a very old discussion that was closed. May I add a couple headers
to the copyright section to "highlight" the differences?
[> In email to myself, Bruce and Sven he also asks - I hope he won't mind
[> me quoting it here:
Not in the least, I wasn't sure how public the discussion should be. I welcome
it.
[> > How extensive of an edit can I do? I can already see a few areas that it
would
[> > be nice to reorganize and clump together (especially in the programmer's
[> > manual where there are quite a few "look to page XX"s) I do not want to
change
[> > the policy standards, just make the policy statements more readible and
[> > hopefully clearer). If I can do some more extensive editing (still unsure
how
[> > extensive right now, I wanted to ask before I put the energy into it) I
will
[> > put the draft on my personal web site and solicit comments. It will
mostly be
[> > moving things around and adding/changing some of the divisions and
catagories.
[>
[> In principle I don't have an objection to stuff being moved around.
[> However, my experience with letting other people edit documents I've
[> written is that the edited versions frequently say something subtly
[> different. I don't know how precise you feel your understanding of my
[> wording is.
That is true. As an exegete and interpreter of the Christian scriptures (day
job is ordained minister) I understand very clearly the subtleties of language.
[> I'm afraid I can't say for sure whether I'd be happy with any changes
[> until I saw them. My advice would be to start slowly, and if I don't
[> object you can be more ambitious :-).
Fair enough. Do you have a preferred way of looking at them? As I mentioned I
was thinking of using the debiandoc2html utility and putting it on my own web
space for perusal. (I will have to see how debiandoc-sgml can be used to mark
changes)
[> [more editing - practice ;)]
[> I hope to be back in more active participation in Debian in time to
[> help with 1.3.
That sounds good, Ian. Thanks for the feedback.
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